The daily figure : Nine million general anesthetics are used each year in France.
On 9 June of that year
1672: birth of the future Czar Peter the Great.
1783: Birth of Benjamin Brodie, English surgeon, a pioneer in vascular surgery, authored the first intervention for varicose veins.
1815: end of the Congress of Vienna in which the victorious European powers of Napoleon, reshaping the map of Europe.
1836: Birth of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, first woman doctor in Britain and first woman mayor of his town in Suffolk.
1870: Death of Charles Dickens.
1891: birth of Cole Porter, author of very many songs.
1934: Donald Duck first appeared in the United States in a Walt Disney cartoon, titled The Wise Little Hen.
1983: Margaret Thatcher won for the second time the elections in the United Kingdom.
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Another half-year of life expectancy gained between 2003 and 2004
Doctor Internet will never replace the doctor
Tax on tickets in 14 countries to fight against AIDS, malaria and TB
The debate on the legalization of euthanasia in the United Kingdom comes alive
Three days antibiotic for pneumonia in general practice? (BMJ)
In a game of football with new shoes in toxic shock (BMJ)
but often little ladies and gentlemen infrequent ...
Full moon nights?
Eating healthy is good, ethical eating
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READ IN GUNAIKEIA Vol. 10 No. 10 - What women présentant une incontinence urinaire d’effort tireront profit d’un entraînement de la musculature du plancher pelvien?
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Another half-year of life expectancy gained between 2003 and 2004
The latest data service Demographics Federal Public Service Economy show that life expectancy in our country still has significant increased between 2003 and 2004, from 78.82 to 79.47 years. In ten years there has even increased by more than two full years in this regard (from 77.35 years in 1995 to 79.47 years in 2004). That of males increased from 75.85 to 76.47 years and women increased from 81.69 to 82.36 years.
Again Belgium is a two tier is to be seen as the life expectancy of citizens Flemish (80.27 years) is greater than two years of the Walloon average (78.04 years), ranging Brussels closer to the figures of the north, with 79.37 years.
There are incidentally a progressive decrease in the gap between men and women (from 6.82 years in 1995 to 5.89 years in 2004).
Doctor Internet will never replace the doctor
In our time, patients are deemed to be most critical and information seekers. But research published on Health Expectations dismantle this belief more widespread in the medical world (Pharm MK et al. Health Expectations 2006; 9: 174-87 .) Patients certainly have thirst for information and written sources, but they are unable to get them alone, and the proliferation of information sources (print and Internet) is not enough to make patients independent in managing their disease or their treatment. Only a small proportion of patients from an intellectual level and sociocultural level is able to understand medical prescriptions and exercise of critical thinking in relation to information from a source other than their doctor contractor.
The majority of patients still depends on the medical information provided by physicians. Internet or the media can never replace the doctor-patient relationship, which remains essential to help the patient understand correctly its pathology and management thereof. Doctor patient communication should always be regarded as a fundamental priority and essential.
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tax on airline tickets in 14 countries in the fight against AIDS, malaria and TB
President Chirac has managed to rally in thirteen countries in more than France to project close to his heart since the beginning of its last electoral mandate in 2002 to tax airline tickets to finance the purchase of drugs against AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, reports Le Figaro . The thirteen other countries are Brazil, Chile, Cyprus, Congo, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mauritius, Nicaragua, Norway and the United Kingdom. This initiative falls within the broader framework of UNITAID, an initiative to buy low cost drugs against these diseases, which was launched earlier this month at the UN conference AIDS. In total, 43 countries participate in UNITAID.
The debate on the legalization of euthanasia in the United Kingdom comes alive
A former professor of ethics British calls for the legalization of euthanasia, at least passively, even unintentionally. Len Doyal, a member of the ethics committee of the British Medical Association, one must indeed be able to legalize a practice widely applied in the field, including for patients incapable of giving consent. As for the British Medical Association, she has recently abandoned its ancient opposition to any form of legalization euthanasia, to take a qualified neutral in this debate.
Three days of antibiotics for pneumonia in general practice? (BMJ)
administration of antibiotics for 3 days is equally effective for treating community-acquired pneumonia than traditional treatments 7 to 10 days and could help reduce antimicrobial resistance, el Moussaoui et al conclude, authors a Dutch study of 119 patients using amoxycillin and published in the British Medical Journal ( BMJ 2006; 332: 1355 ).
In a game of football with new shoes in toxic shock (BMJ)
This is particularly strange that both cases show Taylor et al
authors published in the British Medical Journal ( BMJ 2006; 332: 1376). These two cases of toxic shock syndrome in young people who played football with brand new shoes and having thus developed the "blistering". These blisters contained Staphylococcus aureus, hence the above complication.
ladies but little often infrequent Gentlemen ...
The BMJ (2006; doing: 10.1136/bmj.38831.503113.7c) published a Danish study that, to derive cardiovascular benefit from the consumption of wine, men and women have different behaviors on their way drink. Women should drink little and often, while men could drink a greater quantity but markedly less frequent. According to researchers, the cardiovascular risk in humans would be proportional to the frequency of consumption, while among women it is the amount of alcohol increases the risk. It may be objected this study, which was based on a diary kept by consumer participants, this methodological bias. But it confirms if need be that women are not like other men.
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Full moon nights?
A survey published in the Journal of Sleep Research conducted by researchers at the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Bern (Switzerland) seems to show that sleep is less restful nights during the full moon. The full moon would not sleep because of tiredness and fatigue with recovery awakening. In addition, during the full moon nights, sleep duration is shortened, whereas in new moon phase we would sleep longer. But the authors are careful to state in their conclusions that these findings require additional studies to be validated.
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Eating healthy is good, ethical eating is better
Eating healthy is good. But you can eat healthier than eating healthy ethics. That's what looked a consumer group, representatives of science and representatives of national institutions and community after a meeting held by the EU in Brussels at the initiative of Coldiretti entitled "Food future of the European Union: safety and market." Guaranteeing food safety, transparency of information on their quality and background checks but also on socio-environmental standards to avoid putting on sale of products obtained by degrading the surrounding or exploiting people: these are the priorities that should meet the European Union. One thinks of the flowers grown in Kenya, using unauthorized pesticides and depriving local populations of water. It evokes tomatoes according to a Chinese accusation by the group Human Rights in China are grown by inmates sentenced to hard labor.
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The FDA approved the HPV vaccine
Beer hormones for menopause?
Tens of thousands of married girls in India
The FDA approved the HPV vaccine
The Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved américine Gardasil ®, the recombinant vaccine HPV types 6, 11, 16 and 18 produced by Merck (and marketed in Europe by Sanofi-Pasteur) and for the prevention of cervical cancer in girls and women 9 to 26 years (see also the MDL No. 357, June 8, 2006). " is an important day for public health and the health of women and our ongoing fight against diseases that threaten life as cervical cancer," commented in this regard the Deputy Minister of the USA Public Health.
Beer hormones for menopause?
A non-alcoholic beer enriched with phytoestrogens: a veiled new source of hormone replacement for menopausal women, the result of collaboration between the Research Institute for Brewing and Maltin and a producer of Czech beer industry. The Czech Republic is the largest consumer of beer in the world and women are yet to conquer a market for the consumption of beer ...
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Tens of thousands of married girls in India
Tens of thousands of girls are married each year in India and believed to give birth as soon as they reach puberty, reports the BBC . According to the 2001 census, 300,000 girls under fifteen years gave birth in India, some for the second time. And this year, says the BBC, the number could have reached half a million. Although child marriages are illegal in the country since the Child Marriage Restraint Act in 1929 imposed by the colonial British, we sometimes see unions involving girls ... 6 years.
READ IN GUNAIKEIA Vol. 10 N ° 10 - Which women with stress urinary incontinence will benefit from a workout of the pelvic floor?
Hendrik Cammu Michelle Van Nylen, Christophe Blockeel, Leon Kaufman, Jean-Jacques Amy
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, AZ VUB, Brussels
Urinary incontinence is a very common problem, encountered in at least 14% of women over 30 years (1). The International Continence Society defines urinary incontinence as the involuntary discharge of urine through the urethra simultaneously to an increase in intra-abdominal pressure (2). Urinary incontinence often has a negative impact on the daily lives of women (3) and it rarely improves spontaneously (4). The SUI is conventionally treated in two ways: firstly, there are many surgical correction of the closure mechanism of the urethra and on the other hand, it yal'entraînement pelvic floor muscle. These exercises have an effect on incontinence because they support the urethra and bladder neck indirectly because of their entanglement with the endopelvic fascia (5).
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to Monitor Released (June 8, 2006)
• Royal Decree determining the financial contribution of the Belgian federal authority activities Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters for the year 2006 (p. 29432)
• Flemish Government Decree amending the Flemish Government Decree of 5 October 2001 in implementation of Article 33b of the Decree of 23 January 1991 on the protection of the environment against pollution from fertilizers and amending the Decree of the Flemish Government of 6 February 1991 fixing settlement the Flemish Environmental Licences (p. 29437)
• National Health Insurance Disability. Higher Commission Medical Council of disability, established with the Benefits department. Resignations and appointments (p. 29445)
• National Health Insurance Disability. Staff. Honorable resignation (p. 29446).
• National Health Insurance Disability. Evaluation committee of medical practices in medicine, established with the Department of Health. Resignation and appointment of a member (p. 29446)
• National Institute of sickness and disability. Registration Board of Opticians, established with the Department of Health. Reappointments. Resignation and appointment of members (p. 29446) • Office
control of mutual societies and national unions of mutual societies. Staff. Voluntary resignation of a financial inspector (p. 29447)
